Saturday saw a blistering hot day (touching 30oC in the wind) and an invitation to a barbeque with the neighbours in the evening. For the day the sane ones stayed in doors rather than get fried outside by the UV (the sun was so intense your skin could feel it hitting it). Walking down to the neighbours at about 5.30 Sean remarked "wow look at that cloud bank in the south" thinking nothing more of it as we sweated away on the walk down. A large broiling cloud was bubbling away on the horizon coming at us from a southerly direction.
Within half an hour the wind had began to whip about. Paper plates, plastic cups, wine glasses and the odd skirt whirling about in the gusts. Within in an hour the temperature had dropped by about 10oC and within two hours the cloud had rolled in and the wind was really blowing and the temperature was down to a cool 15oC or there abouts. That was a southerly. half the adults braved it out moving round to a less exposed side of the house and the others (women and children) took to the inside. Luckily the intrepid monahans had thought to pack fleecy jackets so with that and the wine they were ok. A nice time socialising was had by all.
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In 2009, for many reasons that we wont go into here, we took the family decision that it was high time that we had our next big adventure. Its taken a year to sort out but finally, on April 11th 2010, we leave Blighty and family and freinds for a new life in New Zealand. This blog is for us to keep telling our story to those we leave behind and for those we leave behind to know that we miss them and they are in our thoughts.
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